Right now, the hospital where I get most of my medical services and treatment has a sign in seven or eight Indo-European and Asian languages informing them of patient rights. How many languages do we need? Have we become the UN?

12:59 pm May 29, 2014

Jay Mannifkoff wrote:

Sucking up to any minority will end up badly damaging our GDP and it already is making a second class country.. Immigrants like me have spent time and effort to learn English, why should I learn Spanish and waste my working time.

2:00 pm May 29, 2014

Richard Sullivan wrote:

Sounds pretty race-centric to me. '-)

2:03 pm May 29, 2014

Victor Myers wrote:

The ability to speak two or more languages demonstrates higher intellect and culture.

2:04 pm May 29, 2014

Victor Myers wrote:

The ability to speak two or more languages demonstrate higher intellect and culture.

Let me spell it out to you, and I’m sure I speak for most of my fellow Republicans when I say this is an English-speaking country and we don’t want to learn Spanish or any other language, especially a language from some inferior country. Let me go one-step farther and say we want our government representatives to not be minorities. The way we Republicans see it is this is an English-speaking country of white people. Those are just facts.

2:42 pm May 29, 2014

gusluz wrote:

Unless you think latinos are as dumb as cows, you would know that what they care about is somebody that can turn around the economy to the positive side... not on what language it makes it happen.

2:43 pm May 29, 2014

gth wrote:

Walk into Hispanic a country and see what happens slither into the USA and everything's FREE because we are Americans home of the poor, the uneducated, the food stamp capital, free cell phones, plus all the foreign
aid yes we're the greatest bankrupt country there is , and yes we are TECHNICALLY bankrupt, but we'll just
continue printing money, heck it's so easy ! By the time this clown is done all this will be irrelevant !

3:05 pm May 29, 2014

ilsardo wrote:

What do you mean 2016?

Try English in Miami today.

3:16 pm May 29, 2014

JC wrote:

During earlier immigrant migrations (Italian, German, Vietnamese, etc.) did they request/demand their government speak their language or make accommodations? No. The immigrant learned the language of their new homeland; and prospered for it.

3:27 pm May 29, 2014

Anonymous wrote:

What's wrong with speaking more than one language?

4:33 pm May 29, 2014

To Anonymous wrote:

"What’s wrong with speaking more than one language?'

Nothing in the country of origin.
If you disagree, travel to Mexico and start speaking Russian. See how far that gets you.

6:55 pm May 29, 2014

Anonymous wrote:

Most anti-foreign language folks hold that opinion because they don’t have the cognitive ability to learn one.

7:42 pm May 29, 2014

To Anonymous wrote:

"Most anti-foreign language folks hold that opinion because they don’t have the cognitive ability to learn one."

You're talking about people that won't learn English correct?

7:50 pm May 30, 2014

Jimmee Choo wrote:

American strength has always been the ability to communicate with each other in one language - English. Want to destroy this country? just push another language in it and you will see how fast we go down just like Soviet union.

7:51 pm May 30, 2014

Jef Kurfess wrote:

It is truly remarkable that through mass law breaking, compounded by the continuing lunacy of Birthright Citizenship, and allowed to metastasize through Federal government incompetence, we have managed to create the near equivalent of a Spanish speaking Quebec woven through the fabric of this country. No one ever voted on it. No one ever passed a policy to make it happen. It's testimony to the incredible effects of long term failure to enforce the law.

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